To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.""Why not? Because I'm a woman?""No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Home is the place that goes where you go, yet it welcomes you upon your return. Like a dog overjoyed at the door. We've missed you is what you hear, no matter how long you've been gone.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.